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There are two ways to know something: learn about it or live it. Your knowledge can be encyclopedic, but where you stand on a matter also depends upon...
“As someone who works in a hospital, you know” a cab driver named Muhammed said to his passenger Anne Dubitsky. “People are all the same inside....
Analogies make the unfamiliar, more familiar. But they can also convince us that we’re more aware of something than we actually are. As journalist...
“May the same wonder-working Deity, who long since delivering the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors, planted them in the promised land –...
As we settle into our seats for our Seder evening, we feel unsettled by history’s reversals. So many challenges are deepening. Mental wellness....
Responses matter. You are not merely the product of what happens to you. You are also the product of what you do with what happens to you. And even...
A fellow-learner in her mid-20s from our community told me something impressive this week. “It’s not important to me to convince others that I’m...
Online hissing and hollering aren’t good for you. Your spirit is more intrigued by melodies that hum deep inside you. A mental journey can find you...
“How are you doing, given everything?” a reporter recently asked Volodymr Zelensky. “My life today is wonderful. Because I believe that I am...
Many today wonder whether we can matter. Can we really make a difference in today’s world? The problems are so enormous. The challenges are so vast....
As we enter Shabbat this week, with so much pain being inflicted upon Ukrainians, what are we looking for? Fresh ideas. Fresh energy. Priority...
“The unique sadness and terror of anti-Semitism for the Jews” wrote Taffy Brodesser-Akner last June, “lies not just in its violence, but in the...
I enjoyed a recent conversation with our son about nature walks. Like many of us, he finds them refreshing. But, I added, even though we share life...
Why is matzah, matzah? As a young child I was taught it was due to an eagerness to taste freedom. The bread didn’t have time to rise, because the...
Civic leader Omar Brownson was walking home one day with his youngest daughter. She turned to him and said, “Dad, I’m really grateful for this...
“He could have died and she could have done nothing. Or he could have died and she could have given us this beautiful book.” Rabbi David Wolpe...
We tell ourselves stories to make us feel better and more virtuous about what we do and why we do it. Social media executives tell themselves...
A biblical Joseph could no longer contain his emotions. He began to weep uncontrollably, so audibly that his cry was heard throughout Pharaoh’s...
Attention need not produce tension. This should be obvious. When we pay attention to majestic sunsets and gentle streams, we typically feel calm....
“And no office is more blessed than that of a servant of light.” This is how Herzl concludes an essay he called The Menorah . It begins, “Once...
First-time hikers of the Appalachian trails commonly overpack. They pile in an extra cooking pot or bulky down blanket. When they come to the first...
Side effects are everywhere. Medication labels cram them into fine print. Nightly News drug ads rifle through them before signing off. They can...
People who are content with their lot in life, don’t typically feel the urge to harm others. As philosopher Alain de Botton has noted, people are...
We all make to-do lists. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant has taken to making a to-don’t list. His top three things not to do? 1) Surf...